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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Alabama

Tornado February 6, 2008 · Fayette County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

26.2 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injuries

$335K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Fayette County → Tuscaloosa County → Fayette County → Walker County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The Newtonville tornado moved back into Fayette County, and continued its journey northeastward. In this segment, the tornado moved through a sparsely populated area between the city of Berry and the Boley Springs Community. No significant structures were hit, and only sporadic tree damage was observed. The tornado reached the Walker County line just west of Fayette CR-83.

The wider storm

A strong cold front and very intense upper level storm system moving across the Gulf Coast States brought numerous severe thunderstorms and several tornadoes to Central Alabama.

Began near Berry (33.6060, -87.5864).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Coosa County EF1 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 84365. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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